Rafters

After completing the exterior walls we raised our interior supporting wall. Next cut and set our rafters.

 

Framing the Second Floor Exterior Walls

After finishing the car decking and laying plywood over it we moved on to the second floor! We had our amazing carpenters back for two Saturdays. Similar to the first floor, we built the walls on the floor and then raised them up.


Time lapse of the framing.

Three walls

Framing the west wall

All four walls up!

Four walls and a very temporary roof

Back filling and pipes

After waterproofing the basement walls we were ready to back fill! We had the same amazing excavator back.  The time-video shows the placement of the pipes and conduit for water, sewer, cable, electrical, and gas.  It also includes the placement of the sump well that pumps water from the footing drains.

Setting the Sump

Digging s trench for utilities

Drainage

Cable and Electrical



Finished Driveway

Hay to keep the mud down

We have a yard again!

Waterproofing the basement

Before we could begin framing the second floor we had to back fill around the basement walls.

First we needed to waterproof the walls. This involved rolling a layer of tar over the foam. After that we adhered a waterproof trim around the base.

After that we adhered rolls of a waterproof tar membrane. This helps keep water off the walls and out of the basement

Now we are ready to back fill!

Finally we used more tar (this time from a tube) to attach the dimple board. The dimple board helps drain water down toward the footing drains.

Car decking

The fir car decking came from the Second Use, it had been outside for a while so it needed a lot of sanding and oiling, each board took about an hour, and there were about 50 boards all together.

The car decking as we bought it

Sean using the orbital sander to sand the edges

Using the belt sander

Oiling

Sam  coming to check things out

Finished!

Standing in the living room!

View from our future bedroom

Sanding and oiling the beams

The beams came from an old Seattle warehouse. The warehouse was about a 100 years old, the vertical grain fir is likely 400-500 years old. It is beautiful wood and I like how you can see a few hole from the bolts which suspended it in its original location. The original beams were enormous. We had four 6"x 10" beams milled from half of one original beam!

My mom sanding the beams

My Dad routing the edge of the beams

After the beams were installed!

Goodbye ladders! 

Finishing the first floor

On October 10th we hired two awesome carpenters to help us frame. They are very fast! We were able to finish framing first floor walls, both interior and exterior.

We framed each exterior wall on the floor in ten foot sections and then raised them up.

Bathroom walls